# Brittani Nichols

Brittani Nichols (born June 20, 1988) is an American producer, actress, comedian, and writer. In 2016, Nichols wrote, produced, and starred in the film Suicide Kale, which won the Audience Award for Best U.S. Dramatic Feature at 2016 Outfest. She has written for the television programs A Black Lady Sketch Show, Take My Wife, Strangers, and Drop the Mic. Nichols is a writer and producer for Abbott Elementary and won the Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series award at the 54th NAACP Image Awards for the episode "Student Transfer". As part of the producing team of Abbott Elementary, Nichols was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2023.

## Career
### Television and film

Nichols moved to Los Angeles after college and developed the web series Words With Girls (2012), which she later rewrote as a full-length pilot that was produced by Issa Rae and Deniese Davis's initiative ColorCreative.tv. The series centered a group of queer twenty-something roommates in LA and starred Nichols, Corbin Reid, Hannah Hart, Alex Sturman, and Lauren Neal. In 2016, Nichols wrote, produced, and starred in Suicide Kale, a dark comedy with an all queer-woman cast. Nichols stated in an interview that she set out to make a lesbian movie that "wasn’t about coming out, sleeping with a man, or a character death at the end". Both Words with Girls and Suicide Kale draw on Nichols' own experiences as a lesbian, and she has stated repeatedly in interviews that she is committed to increasing LGBTQ and African-American representation in media. Suicide Kale won the Audience Award for Best U.S. Dramatic Feature at Outfest.
She has appeared in several television programs including A Black Lady Sketch Show, Take My Wife, and Transparent. Nichols was a writer for season one of the HBO series A Black Lady Sketch Show. She has also written for Strangers, Drop the Mic, and Take My Wife. She served as Consulting Producer for The Circle and Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.
In 2020, it was announced that Nichols would produce a dramedy, Toothbrush, for Quibi through ColorCreative; however Quibi went out of business before the show was created.
She is a writer and producer for the ABC comedy Abbott Elementary and is represented by CAA.

### Other work

In 2016, she released a five-track EP, Brittani Nichols Likes You. Nichols previously co-hosted two podcasts, Brand New Podcast with Ariana Lenarsky, and Hamilton the Podcast with Khalehla Rixon. Nichols also is Writers Guild of America West Captain.

## Personal life

Nichols was born in Chicago. After attending Thornwood High School, she attended Yale University, where she played on the women's basketball team and women's rugby team.
She is gay and genderqueer. She supported Hugo Soto-Martinez and Eunisses Hernandez during the 2022 Los Angeles elections.

## Filmography
### Acting

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2012 | Words with Girls | Brittani | 5 episodes |
| 2013 | Unicorn Plan-It | Random Sleeper | Episode: "Across the YOUniverse" |
| 2015 | Transparent | Nicol | 3 episodes |
| 2016 | Suicide Kale | Jasmine Rawlings | Also writer |
| 2016 | The Fat One | Reese | Episode: "Not Hungry" |
| 2017 | Rad Lands | Farmer Knox | Episode: "Big" |
| 2018 | Take My Wife | Bethani | 2 episodes |
| 2019 | A Black Lady Sketch Show | Barbecue Daddy #2 / Ex | 2 episodes |

### Writer

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 2012 | Words with Girls | 6 episodes |
| 2015 | The Xperiment | 26 episodes |
| 2016 | Suicide Kale | Also actress |
| 2017 | Drop the Mic | 6 episodes |
| 2018 | Take My Wife | 5 episodes |
| 2018 | Strangers | Episode: "First Skate" |
| 2019 | A Black Lady Sketch Show | 6 episodes |
| 2022-24 | Abbott Elementary | 3 episodes |